The Timeless Land

The Timeless Land

The Timeless Land is awaiting comments from the publisher, but I thought it’s high time I put up something about it.

“I want not to have killed a person.”

Maya Subramaniam’s life is arguably far more complex than the average fourteen-year-old’s. As the youngest Halvard of the Sands of Time, torn between loyalty to her family and to her Watcher, and dogged by a prophecy that predicts her to be the cause of the destruction of time… Honestly, how much can one person take?

An adolescent caught in a world of grown-ups, Maya finds herself in the middle of a Warrior conspiracy to see the Ai’diyar Prophecy to its conclusion. Homeless and confused, convinced that she wrecks the lives of those she loves, Maya finds herself doubting her ability to see right from wrong.

As she and her friends stumble into the Timeless Land, she is faced with a choice that could have a devastating impact on reality as we know of it. In this third and final book of the Halvard series, Maya finally comes face to face with the Prophecy.

Whenever Bangalore happens, I shall get signatures on all 3 of the books, maybe even a 4th one by the time.

Oh and do you have a gala, a social, a Page 3 party for the launch of your book where people come dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns and air-kiss and schmooze and bitch, only to remember later that this was a book for kids and young adults! Would be interesting, no, to be a part of it? 😆

Niklas, with his mighty voice

Usage of regular exprssions in OOo Writer. (This is a title, imagine it big)
Regular expressions (or regexes for short) is in theory extremely useful. In practicality regexes are like pissed off donkeys that refuse to work. Just as with regexes, many times it takes more time motivating donkeys to work than to actually do the work yourself.

What a (obedient) regex can do, is to lookup text patterns. To use a regular expression in OOo, you have to open the ‘Find & Replace’ dialog and check the ‘Regular Expressions’ box. When checked, you may search for a regular expression pattern.

For some reason, a certain Indian Bug recently wished to turn each word’s initial letter to uppercase. It is easiest to just do it by hand but if you’ve got a lengthy text, or just want to show off, regexes will be perfect for the task.

In order to do this, we’ll need to tell the regex engine to find the first letter of a word. ‘Find all’ will then select the first letter in all words. Once the letters are selected, you can easily change the case by clicking Format>Change Case>Uppercase.

/<.

That is the rather cryptic search/regex pattern. /Sort will do the trick. Actually, I preferred it with the number first. With another regex, the original format is easily restored.

+32 Belgium
+33 France
+30 Greece
+34 Spain
+31 The Netherlands

And there! Take that. A regex post even if I had to write it myself because that certain Indian Bug who was supposed to do it, is being too lazy!